Massive 60+ GPU Linux testing by Phoronix

Phoronix turns 10 years old (congrats guys!) and to celebrate, they decided to do a huge GPU comparison test, using Linux Open Source drives. And huge is not an understatement here.

They tested more than 60 GPUs from all major players, which amounts to weeks of testing and benchmarking. Here’s a peek:

In this article the OpenGL performance for this vast assortment of graphics cards from over the years is being tested using the latest open-source graphics driver code for thee three big vendors. This article is just part one while other upcoming articles to round out this testing include: a look at the Linux 2D acceleration performance for many of these GPUs, delivering an article that looks at these graphics results when measuring the power consumption / performance-per-Watt / GPU temperatures, and then lastly is re-doing all of the graphics card testing but using the proprietary AMD and NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers. I’ve been working on this set of articles for the massive Linux GPU drivers for weeks in celebration of Phoronix turning ten years old.

The only restrictions for this massive Linux graphics processor comparison were limited to GPUs within my possession that were PCI Express compatible or when it came to the integrated Intel HD Graphics, the available Haswell CPUs. The GPUs tested cover both low and high-end GPUs and go back several generations on the AMD and NVIDIA side. The GPUs I had available for testing in this article included: